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On the Road Again 10.5 to 11% of GDP, Merry Christmas an Extra £20Bn Transfo rming transport Discovering Titan Regal rock Let the games begin All the latest news from the Huygens’ mission to the Kings of Leon impress our Our new section launches with Square Mile, page 3 mysterious moon, page 4 reviewer, page 16 Half Life 2, page 26 The student newspaper of Imperial College ● Established 1949 ● Issue 1309 ● Thursday 9 December 2004 ● www.felixonline.co.uk On your bike Why travelling by good old- fashioned push-bike is ben- Exam anguish as students suffer ill eficial to you and the environ- ment. uCOMMENT page 10 effects of short Christmas break Lots of letters Student discounts, sandwich By Dave Edwards Stephen Message, a fourth not asking for anything that able to learn the information representative, told Felix: prices, tolerance, Christmas Editor year student in aeronautics, hasn’t been given in the required. “Let this be a lesson for trees and international stu- told Felix: “It’s absolutely past,” adding that in previous Prof Hillier added that “the future years of the impor- dents are among the topics Fourth year aeronautics crazy for revision time to be years three or more weeks only realistic option is to tance of forward planning, for covered this week. students face the difficult this short. I don’t know how have been available for revi- move the exams back by two both the aeronautics depart- uLETTERS page 9 prospect of having only the they can honestly say that we sion before the fourth year days”, but even this may not ment and the College. two-week Christmas break to can revise for six 20-lecture finals. be possible due to students “The general consensus is Brilliant band revise for their final exams. courses in two weeks.” Professor Richard Hillier, attending job interviews that we have been given a The Imperial College Big Due to timetabling issues Lectures run up until the head of the aeronautics and the fact that the exams highly stressful and unfair Band take the gold award at and the way this year’s end of this term, on Friday 17 department, said that he had are shared with third year task at a pivotal stage of our the National Concert Band College term dates have been December, and the first exam “enormous sympathy about students who start projects degree, which could have Festival. arranged, they will have to is scheduled for Tuesday 4 the need for revision time” almost immediately after- been avoided in the first u CLUBS AND SOCIETIES spend the entire ‘festive’ sea- January, the first day of the but believed that two weeks wards. place at the cost of just a lit- page 13 son revising for five or six new term. was “a realistic timescale” Sam Wolfenden, the fourth tle extra timetable planning 20-lecture courses. Mr Message said: “We’re in which students should be year aeronautics department and thought.” RSM to Radio 1 Felix invites Ian Betts back to College to find out how an Imperial graduate has become one of the most NHS set to waste talked about names on the London trance scene. uNIGHTLIFE page 18 £20bn, says Imperial The best of 2004 Our esteemed film editor professor’s report chooses his top five movies of the year. Plus competitions By Dave Edwards social housing programme.” and reviews of three of the The report said that a good week’s new releases. £20bn per year will be wasted example of reform could be u FILM page 23 on the National Health Service seen in accident and emer- (NHS) by 2010, according to gency departments, which a report by Nick Bosanquet, have been given only an extra THIS WEEK Professor of Health Policy at £30m per year but have great- News page 2 Imperial College. ly improved waiting times by Business page 3 According to The Times, changing working practices. the report concludes that the Prof Bosanquet has a long Science page 4 NHS is improving, but at a track record of healthcare Comment page 8 high and unnecessary cost. analysis, having advised the Around Campus page 11 It finds that a reformed serv- Health Select Committee What’s On page 15 ice could have been provided and the World Health Music page 16 for around £90bn per year, Organisation. The report was Nightlife page 18 instead of the £110bn that is published by the think tank likely to be spent by 2010. Reform. Arts page 21 Prof Bosanquet said: Books page 22 “International evidence Film page 23 shows that reform can be a Games page 26 pretty powerful way of get- Coffee Break page 28 ting more output from exist- Sport page 30 ing capacity. If we had had limited extra funds, plus reforms in the way the This is the last Felix of system works, we could term. The next issue is have had a superb NHS published on Thursday for 9% of GDP. Instead, 6 January 2005 we shall be spending On the road again 10.5 to 11% of GDP, Merry Christmas an extra £20bn. That to all our readers Bo’, the 102-year-old motorised mascot of the City & Guilds College Union, made the would be enough journey from London to Dartmoor. Report: page 12 to fund the entire Felix 2 www.felixonline.co.uk Thursday 9 December 2004 Issue 1309 Editor Dave Edwards Business Editor Numaan Chaudhry Science Editor Darius Nikbin Music Editor Andrew Sykes Nightlife Editor Simon Clark Arts Editor Paola Smith Books Editor Martin Smith Film Editor Alan Ng Games Editor Alex McKitrick Felix Beit Quad Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BB Telephone: 020 7594 8072 Email: [email protected] Web: www.felixonline.co.uk Registered newspaper ISSN 1040-0711 Copyright © Felix 2004 Printed by Sharman and Company, Peterborough NEWS Brown and the budget How the national press reacted to the Chancellor’s pre-budget report By Emily Gwyer that the Chancellor put for- of these bills have no chance ward were all based on the of becoming law before the This week saw the announce- family: to increase paid mater- House is closed for the elec- ment by the Chancellor of the nity leave to nine months, to tion. Basically, he could say Exchequer, Gordon Brown, of extend nursery places and whatever he wanted. his plans for the next year the Sure Start scheme, and to The Financial Times also in the pre-budget report. give single parents an extra warned that the chances of This might seem a bit dry, £40 per week if they go back to tax rises after the election but it sets out the way that- work. All very voter-friendly. are high, and The Observer the Labour party will run the The Sun described the pointed out that Brown is country for the next year, and Chancellor as “spraying £50 nearly always right, unlike as this is an election year, notes at babies, mums and his “self-righteous and nearly possibly the next four years dads” – nothing to complain permanently wrong critics”. as well. The Budget report about there, you would think. The proposals were very was very political indeed this The proposals are also, how- popular, however, and very year, which hints that Labour ever, really rather expensive. Brownite in their focus on will be using the economy as This surprised a lot of people family policies and away from the centre of their general who were expected some sort the law, order and terror- election campaign. of mention of the fact that the ism cocktail that had been The pre-budget report was economy appears to be down- the Queen’s Speech a week widely described as being turning, and that Brown before. This excited a lot of unexciting, focusing as it did might not meet his famous commentators into thinking on causes that nobody could but strict self-imposed Golden that this was Brown’s mani- moan about. The Telegraph Rule – that spending matches festo and he was going to set did, admittedly, have a go, but investment over the electoral out his stall for the leadership it was a bit half-hearted: “If cycle. But those commenta- of the Labour party. this is the man who is likely tors had obviously forgotten Perhaps they are being a to personify Labour’s next that this is an election year bit premature, but it does incarnation in power, it is vital and therefore all facts which appear that Brown will have to know what he proposes to are not 100% positive and to do something soon, seeing do with the national wealth spinnable for the Government as Blair has declared that he whose growth he believes is are brushed under the carpet. would like to serve throughout his achievement. Yesterday, In addition, it was pointed out the entire (four year) term. he gave a clear and ringing that the fact that this is an So it may be that we see some answer to that question: he election year means that this action from Brown before the intends to spend it.” is a very short parliamentary election, if he believes that it The most important ideas session and therefore many may be his only chance. The Sun described the Chancellor as “spraying £50 notes at babies, mums and dads” Felix Thursday 9 December 2004 www.felixonline.co.uk 3 Business [email protected] Latest from the Square Mile From Ukraine to the heart of London, Numaan Chaudhry has it covered Viktor vetoed ble at the anticipated time and money lost through the Tens of thousands of scheme.
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